Public opposition to non-human primate (NHP) experiments is significant, yet those who
defend them cite minimal harm to NHPs and substantial human benefit. Here we review …

Television (TV) programming attracts ever-growing audiences and dominates the cultural
zeitgeist. Viewership and social media engagement have become standard indices of …

Despite extensive research, the spatiotemporal span of neuronal activations associated with
the emergence of a conscious percept is still debated. The debate can be formulated in the …

People seek novelty in everyday life, but they also enjoy viewing the same movies or
reading the same novels a second time. What changes and what stays the same when re …

Complex, sustained, dynamic, and naturalistic visual stimulation can evoke distributed brain
activities that are highly reproducible within and across individuals. However, the precise …

How do our brains respond when we are being watched by a group of people? Despite the
large volume of literature devoted to face processing, this question has received very little …

The default mode network (DMN) is a widely distributed, intrinsic brain network thought to
play a crucial role in internally-directed cognition. The present study employs stereo …

The human brain is a complex and dynamic system. This paper quantifies how it responds to
change in video quality through changes in the distribution of feature vectors extracted from …

The ultimate goal of our research project is to quantify the human perception of video quality
directly from brain responses. Specifically, subjects watch a set of video sequences whose …

A ubiquitous characteristic of human cortical networks is their tendency to rapidly change
their response properties upon repetition. While this phenomenon has been amply …